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mercredi févr. 26, 2014

I was wondering when I entered in the Exhibitors Halls, if I
was really at the mobile world congress or at a World Wide Automotive Show.
Nearly every booth has a car to demonstrate a mobile phone on wheels… But for
Oracle: we do have a boat! We demonstrate how the usage of the 300 sensors
embedded in the America’s Cup sailing boat, can drive real-time human decisions.
Of course, this is one of the many use cases we do have. I won’t go through the
entire list from communications, connected cars to smart grids, analytic and Cloud enable
mobile applications. I will rather focus on a rather interesting embedded topic
as the trend around IoT (Internet of Things) is huge.

I already touch on this during my last OOW blog. As we are
in a (very) small world (i.e. the device can be very small), the BOM (bill of
material) needs to be at the right price, the right energy consumption and
provide a very long life cycle: you don’t want your car to break after one
year, or to face complex upgrades every 6 months and be connected (physically) with your repair shop too often. That’s where Java comes into play, because it
provides the right footprint, management and life cycle. The new thing we are
showing today is Java TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) integrated in hardware.
This brings security inside the device by providing a secure store for your
keys. As security is a major concern in IoT, especially for large industrial
projects like connected Cars, Smart Grid, Smart Energy or even Healthcare. You
don’t want your devices to be temper, either for 1) safety reason or 2) frauds.
And Java is very good in all IoT uses cases, even for stronger security
requirement, that for example, Gemalto is implementing with it.

To help you get there, Gemalto's Cinterion concept board enables you to quickly prototype your embedded devices and connect them securely (even your dart board)...

On the other side of those devices, you have you!…. That
needs to make enrich decisions… That’s where data (and analytics) comes into
play. And for this part, I invite you to join us in Paris, on March 19th
on a special event around Data Challenges for Business. Ganesh Ramamurthy, Oracle VP Software
Development in our Engineering System group will be with us to explain what Oracle
Systems brings to manage and analyze all your Data. He will be with Cofely Services - GDF
Suez, Bouygues Telecom and Centre
Hospitalier de Douai, who will share their experiences.